Snake made lights with the jewels, and once more they began to pick their way over the terrain, barer and barer of vegetation.
Yes, the reality was barer than the picture that she had seen.
She found his room poorer and barer even than she had fancied it might be.
They are poorer and barer than the worst you would see in Russia.
The room appeared harder, barer, emptier than when I had seen it before.
If our life and worship was barer and harder than that of the past, it was also far higher.
This region is most productive towards the north, barer and more arid as we proceed southwards towards the desert.
barer than the heavens emptied of the constellations that are called by their names.
Life in such a country was even rougher and barer than in the Waxhaws.
Facing the village is the wooded hill of Stantonbury (to be distinguished from its barer neighbour Wynbury).
Old English barian, from bare (adj.). Related: Bared; baring.
Old English bær "naked, uncovered, unclothed," from Proto-Germanic *bazaz (cf. German bar, Old Norse berr, Dutch baar), from PIE *bhosos (cf. Armenian bok "naked;" Old Church Slavonic bosu, Lithuanian basas "barefoot"). Meaning "sheer, absolute" (c.1200) is from the notion of "complete in itself."
Old English barian, from bare (adj.). Related: Bared; baring.
